Implement for buckling bale-ties



(No Model.)

F. S. WILLIAMS.-

IMPLEMENT FOR BUOKLING BALE TIES.

Patented May 24, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC S. WILLIAMS, OF DE ROCHE, ARKANSAS.

' IMPLEMENTFOR BUCKLING BALE-TIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,569, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed March 18, 1887. Serial No. 281,412. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, FREDERIO STAYTON WILLIAMS, of De Roche, in the county of Hot Spring and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Implement for Buckling Bale-Ties, of which the following is a full,

' clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an implement adapted for buckling ties onto pressed bales of cotton, hay, or general merchandise, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and

efficient device of this character.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the tie-buckling implement, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved implement as applied to use to buckle a tie onto a pressed bale, and Fig. 2 is afront edge view of the implement partly broken away and with parts of the bale-tie held thereto, the parts being shown in the positions they asso me when the tie is buckled on the bale.

The stock or mainbar A of the implement is provided at its upper end with a cam-lever, B, which is pivoted at b to the bar, so that its eccentric or cam face is adapted to clamp one end of a bale-tie to a lug, 0, formed on the bar, a suitable pin, 1), being fixed in the bar to prevent the cam-lever being swung overv upward too far, thereby always assuring an opening between the cam and the lug when the lever is thrown upward, to facilitate placing the end of the tie between the cam and the log with one hand in operating the tool, as hereinafter explained.

To the main bar A, or preferably to a lug, a, projecting rearward from the back edge of the bar, is pivoted at d the forked end of a link, D, the other end of which preferably enters a slot in a lever, E, and is pivoted at d to the lever, which ranges along one side of the bar A, and to which it is held loosely by a long staple or eye, F, crossing the bar and fixed at opposite ends to the lever, the lower edge of which at e is adapted to lock onto any one of a series of ratchetteeth, G, formed on or fixed to the face of the bar. The link D constitutes a movable fulcrum to the lever E, while both link and lever have substantial support on or from the main bar A.

The forward end of the lever E is bent upward and made in forked form or with two parallel lugs, H H, spaced apart sufiiciently to admit a bale-tie flatwise between them, and provided at their upper edges or extremities with notches h, to receive a cross-bar, i, of the tie-buckle I. The lower end of the main bar A is forked, and in this fork is pivoted an antifriction roller, J, adapted to move upon the face of the lower end part of the bale-tie. The lever E is shown broken away in the drawings; but it may have any desired length, assuring sufficient leverage to allow easy and effective action of the implement.

The operation is asfollows: The two opposite ends K L of a tie on a pressed bale, M, (shown only in part), are connected to the implement in the following manner: The main bar A will be firmly grasped by the left hand at its curved upper portion, a, and the end K of the tie will be placed between the cam-lever B and the bar-lug O by the right hand, and the hand to clamp this end of the tie, as in the drawings; and while the outer end of the lever E is rested on and lifted by the left knee of the operator the buckle I 011 the other end, L, of the tie will be slipped by its cross-bar 1 into the notches h of the fork-jaws H 011 the lever, this being also done by the right hand, all be ing then ready for tightening the tie, and the parts having the positions shown in full lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The outer end of the lever E will now be pressed down by both hands, meanwhile being swung over a little at its back end to allow its forward part to move easily clear of the ratchet-teeth G, and when the lever'assumcs the position indicated in dotted lines, or when the tie is sufliciently tightened, the back end of the lever E will be moved toward the right hand to cause it to engage one of the ratchet-teeth G, as in Fig. 2, tohold the tightened tie, and the extremity of the part K of the tie will then be slipped between the jaws H H of the lever and beneath cam-lever will then be operated by the right the cross-bar i of the buckle I and bent upward, as-indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1;

and when the lever E is disengaged from the rack G by a sidewise or twisting motion ot the lever, and the ca1n-lever B is thrown upward, the implement will be released from the tie ready for operation in a like manner on the next tie to be tightened. The roller J moves easily on the end L of the tie as the implement is operated to tighten the tie, as above described.

The main bar A, with the link D and lover E, may be used with a deviee other than the cam-leverB and lug O for holding one end of the tie; but the cam and lug-clamp is simple and effective, and is at present preferred in practice.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an implement for buckling bale-ties, the combination,with a bar having a device at one end for clamping one end of the tie, of a lever fulcrumed to the bar and formed with a forked forwardend adapted to retain the cross bar of a buckle held to the other end of the tie and allow the first-named end of the tightened tie to be passed around the buckle crossbar, substantially as herein described.

2. In an implement for buckling bale-ties, the combination,with a main bar having a device at one end for clamping one end of the tie, of a lever fulcrumed to the bar and provided with aforked forward end adapted to retain the cross-bar of a buckle held to the other end of the tie and allow the first-named end of the tightened tie to be passed around thebuckles cross-bar, and said main bar having an anti friction roller at its otherend adapted to move on the tie as the implement is operated, substantially as herein described.

buckling bale-ties, ofa bar, A, having a lug,

O, a cam-lever, I3, pivoted to the bar, a link, I), also pivoted to bar A, and a lever, E, pivoted to the link D and provided atits forward end with lugs H H, notched at 71, substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination, in an implement for buckling bale-ties, of a bar, A, having a lug, O. and ratchet-teeth G, a cam-lever, B, pivoted to the bar, alink, D also pivoted to the bar A,

a lever, E, pivoted to the link D and provided with lugs H H, notched at h, anda retainer, F, for the lever, substantially as shown and described.

6. An implement for buckling bale-ties, made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting ofa main bar, A, having a lug, O, a rack, G, and a roller, J, a camlever, B, pivoted to bar A, a link, D, also pivoted to said bar, alever, E, pivoted to the link D and having lugs H H, notched at 7:,aud a retainer, F, for the lever, all arranged for operation as and for the purposes herein set Forth. 1

FREDERIG S. XVILLIAMS.

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FLOYD N. MORGAN, \VILLIAM P. IVIANN. 

